Meet the Team

MARY MATHIS: FOUNDER & CEO, LATINARRIFIC

Mary is a serial entrepreneur and a dual national (American and Australian) who truly knows what it is to be bi-cultural. With over 30 years of global managerial, marketing, operations, and sales experience, she has demonstrated expertise in multicultural marketing, emerging technologies, and integrated strategic communications.

Mary has a special passion for projects that empower women. The companies that Ms. Mathis and her veteran media and marketing team have developed cater to multicultural markets in the U.S. with a strong focus on the American Latina. Early on she recognized the confluence of a growing Hispanic community in the United States, an underserved market of Latina programming, a group representing over 1.9 trillion dollars’ worth of buying power, and the importance of minority marketing.

Ms. Mathis lives in New York City and Naples, Florida. She is the author of numerous international publications and co-author of “Today’s Inspired Leaders”, and more recently, “Soy Latinarrific, Pearls Of Wisdom For Latina Entrepreneurs”.

MICHAEL PORCHE: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Michael Porché – is a seasoned media executive with +30 years of experience having served for +20 years as President & CEO at American Media and its fully owned subsidiary Distribution Services (DSI) with 1,000 full and part time employees and annual sales revenue of +1.5B. Mr. Porche also served as Consumer Marketing Director at Wenner Media reporting to its founder Jann Wenner with success launching it SIP line and other brand extensions of the Rolling Stone and Us Weekly but was then recruited by Source Interlink’s BOD to lead the five businesses which fell under Source Interlink Distribution’s portfolio of Publishing services with +7,000 full time W-2 employee’s and $2B in annual sales with responsibility for its Manufacturing, Import and Export, Specialty Sales, Frontend Management and Distribution divisions comprised of sales, in-store service, and logistics.

He has also served as Consultant to leading Media, Tech and CPG companies including Rodale Press, Bauer Publishing, Hearst, Washington Post Companies, Infor, Park City Group, Accelerate 360 and more and is the recipient of Prestigious Frank Herrera Achievement Award (presented by the board of the IPDA).

CAROLYN WALL: VP STRATEGY

CEO, COO, Publisher, VP/General Manager sounds like an identity crisis. From my early days as a transitional woman early to the media space, I was charged with responsibilities that met the moment, and a title followed. My core objective was to enhance or deliver value for the business, the staff and the customer. We launched “Good Day New York”, the first local AM show in the country, 6 months after I was named GM. Change was (is) the only constant, and we were there to meet it at Women’s Wear Daily, Cowles Business Media, New York magazine, Adweek, WSJ’s S+, Newsweek and Fox 5.

Federico Subervi, Chairman

Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Communication • Honorary Associate/Fellow of the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies at the University of WisconsinMadison

Rosario Perez

President/Owner of RP ADVISORS, LLC, an investment advisory firm based in New York City dedicated to serving women entrepreneurs. • Former head of Wealth Management, JP Morgan Chase Latin America, Former CEO Pro Mujer, Latina micro finance NFP in Latin America.

Dr. Miguel Valentin

Acquisition lnvestor+Business Mentor; PhD Organizational Leadership; Business Coach & Profit Acceleration Expert

Minue Yoshida

Minué Yoshida is a multilingual entrepreneur, international speaker, and CEO of Yoshida Academy. An expert in leadership, inclusion, and multicultural effectiveness, she has delivered more than 650 workshops and coached over 30,000 professionals across four continents. She is the author of Inclusion Is a Verb and serves as President of the United Nations Association – New Jersey Chapter.